Equivocal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EQUIVOCAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.
ADJECTIVE:
• subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse
• open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous
• (of a person) using ambiguous or evasive language
• uncertain or questionable in nature
• (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence.
• Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal.
• Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful.
• open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
• open to question
• uncertain as a sign or indication
• ambiguous
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse; uncertain as an indication or sign

Words related to EQUIVOCAL

ambiguous14 equivocality29 equivocally28 equivocalness27

How to use EQUIVOCAL in a sentence

• The oracles, were often very equivocal, or so obscure that their signification was not understood but after the event.
• Fink-Nottle appears to have realized at this point that his position as regards the cabman had become equivocal.
• If science could do this it would confer upon humanity an advantage far less equivocal than that which belongs to the present reign of iron and steam.
• His nod, decisive as it was, struck her as equivocal.
• The Empire had hitherto enjoyed the equivocal privilege of being its own enemy, though invincible from without.
• It was impossible to pursue a course so equivocal without arousing suspicion.
• Menendez gave him the same equivocal answer that he had given the former party, and Ribaut returned to consult with his officers.
• She pressed him to acknowledge her as his wife to the numerous English families who were settled around Leghorn, and who refused to associate with one in her equivocal position.
• And all for Annie Riley! He hated Annie Riley! He was resolved never to marry her, and he let the girl feel his dislike in no equivocal manner.
• But neither the apostles, nor our Lord, cared for credentials of such equivocal value.
• In the temperate zones, where this influence is equivocal, the manners will be fluctuating, and dependent rather on moral than physical causes.
• He was grateful to her, however, for reserving for himself alone these equivocal manifestations, and for not troubling her mother with them.
• These were now reduced to the equivocal substance which I had just placed on the leaf.
• We can understand that Miss Fermor would feel such raillery to be equivocal.
• The note is equivocal, since the phrase is used by fast women who keep some one in their pay.
• Their personal dignity could not permit their assault to be backed up afterward by any equivocal conduct toward him.
• The French king still maintained a secret negotiation with the duke of Savoy, whose conduct had been for some time mysterious and equivocal.
• Hate and spite are as mysteriously equivocal as hopes.
• The prevalent orthodoxy was moderate and equivocal at best.
• Presently, that amiable lady turned her gaze, lighted as it was by an equivocal smile, full upon Tom.
• She further recognised that the circumstances were extraordinary, not to say equivocal, and that she herself occupied a distinctly peculiar position.
• Then her large, equivocal blue eyes fell from his face to the flowers, and their expression simultaneously altered to disdainful amusement full of mischievous implications.
• A body of these troops, honest, well-intentioned countrymen, with very equivocal equipments, were still in the court of the palace.
• An ordinary spectator, having no occasion to spice a paragraph, would have made the equivocal remark that she had once been handsomer.
• Chase found his position embarrassing, if not equivocal.
• Jests of an equivocal character are not only vulgar, but contemptible.
• Indeed, as usual with him, he is often as equivocal in his expression as he is clear in his design.
• The planter regarded a good crop as an equivocal blessing, for as the product was great so in proportion was the labor of preparing it for market.
• Calvin, spoken of by Grotius with the greatest indignation, 287 His equivocal expressions concerning the Eucharist, 293.
• In this equivocal state the enthusiast of genius produces his masterpieces.
• He awoke, with a mortifying discovery that the crash had been of a somewhat less equivocal nature.

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